If interest rates are 8 percent, what is the future value of a $400 annuity payment over six years

Time Value of Money Assignments Annuity Cash Flow Scoring Guide

Respond to the questions and complete the problems.

Questions

In a Word document, respond to the following. Number your responses 1–4.

Explain whether you would you rather have a savings account that paid interest compounded on a monthly basis or compounded on an annual basis? Why?
Describe what an amortization schedule is and its uses. Explain the purpose of an amortization schedule.
Interest on a home mortgage is tax deductible. Explain why interest paid in the early years of a home mortgage is more helpful in reducing taxes than interest paid in later years.
Explain the difference between an ordinary annuity and an annuity due.
Use references to support your responses as needed. Be sure to cite all references using correct APA style. Your responses should be free of grammar and spelling errors, demonstrating strong written communication skills.

Problems

In either a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, complete the following problems.

You may solve the problems algebraically, or you may use a financial calculator or an Excel spreadsheet.
If you choose to solve the problems algebraically, be sure to show your computations.
If you use a financial calculator, show your input values.
If you use an Excel spreadsheet, show your input values and formulas.
In addition to your solution to each computational problem, you must show the supporting work leading to your solution to receive credit for your answer.

If interest rates are 8 percent, what is the future value of a $400 annuity payment over six years? Unless otherwise directed, assume annual compounding periods.
Recalculate the future value at 6 percent interest and 9 percent interest.
If interest rates are 5 percent, what is the present value of a $900 annuity payment over three years? Unless otherwise directed, assume annual compounding periods.
Recalculate the present value at 10 percent interest and 13 percent interest.
What is the present value of a series of $1150 payments made every year for 14 years when the discount rate is 9 percent?
Recalculate the present value using discount rate of 11 percent and 12 percent

Net Present Value (NPV) Return on Investment (ROI) and Profitability Index (PI) Healthcare Facility

You have been hired in the finance department at a large, metropolitan, for-profit hospital. Your duties are very important to the entire hospital in terms of financing operating costs. Additionally, you are also in charge of 3 employees who work under you to help with the day-to-day accounting activities. Your role includes budgeting, managing the general ledger accounts, utilizing financial formulas to perform accounting activities, and training and development of your 3 employees. This professional career is exciting and challenging for you but is also enjoyable
and rewarding as you work your way up the career ladder toward reaching your goal of becoming the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the hospital.
Due to scarce resources, your organization is faced with the decision of choosing between mutually exclusive projects (i.e., build a rehab center or build a neonatal wing). You have been asked to develop a financial analysis of the two projects based on Net Present Value (NPV), Return on Investment (ROI), and Profitability Index (PI). Briefly explain the following concepts and their use/value in assessing the validity of the two mutually exclusive projects:
NPV
ROI
PI
Payer (or case) mix
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Regulations in Business

Explain compare and contrast fair use of trademarks as opposed to fair use of
copyrighted works

Contracts and Negotiations Assignment

Read the documents as instructed below and answer the ten questions in red below. Submit
your answers in an email to me, due by noon on Monday October 5:
Read UC Managing Relationships – Contracts and the Media. Review the outline – CCM
Contracts and Negotiation Notes. Note that in the outline, a legally enforceable contract is
described as requiring four elements, while in the Managing Relationships chapter, it is
described as requiring three elements (with legal capacity and lawful purpose thought of as
defenses rather than as affirmative elements). Answer the following questions based on either
presentation (both forms of analysis eventually get you to the same place):
Q #1 – What is a contract? What are the essential components of a contract? Explain each one.
Q #2 – What elements must a letter must a letter contain in order to serve as a legally enforceable
contract?
Q #3 – As a general rule, must a contract be in writing in order to be enforceable? If your answer
is no, are there exceptions to the general rule? What are they?
Q #4 – What are the sources of contract law?
Q #5 – What are the remedies for breach of contract?
Read 2109 Negotiation Presentation and answer the following questions:
Q #6 – List and describe the two styles of negotiation at opposite ends of the collaboration
spectrum.
Q #7 – What is the focus of the first stage of any successful negotiation? Why is that so?
Q #8 – Assume you are the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Vacuous Publishing Company. The
author of your best-selling non-fiction interactive CD-ROM, The One Second Manager, has a
proposal for another hot management multimedia title but wants a non-refundable $500,000
signing bonus as a key component of any contract to publish this work. You suspect, without
knowing, that the demand has more to do with the author’s ego needs than with her financial
needs. In any event, your preliminary profit and loss work ups reveal that the highest you could
go would be $250,000.
Describe your approach to this negotiation, including both A) a description of the negotiating
style you would employ and why you selected that approach, and B) your opening offer and
rationale for that offer.
Reinforcement Questions (for material covered in prior weeks):
Q #9 – Assume that you are the creative director for Big Media, Inc. Your product development
folks have come up with a plan to develop a new series of training films. You have decided to
outsource the work to a freelancer. A) What must Big Media do vis a vis the freelancer in order
to ensure that Big Media ends up with the greatest possible rights in the final work product? B)
Is the answer different if the project is assigned to an employee of Big Media? If so, how?
Q #10 – Explain, compare, and contrast fair use of trademarks as opposed to fair use of
copyrighted works.

Assume you are the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Vacuous Publishing Company

Contracts and Negotiations Assignment

Read the documents as instructed below and answer the ten questions in red below. Submit
your answers in an email to me, due by noon on Monday October 5:
Read UC Managing Relationships – Contracts and the Media. Review the outline – CCM
Contracts and Negotiation Notes. Note that in the outline, a legally enforceable contract is
described as requiring four elements, while in the Managing Relationships chapter, it is
described as requiring three elements (with legal capacity and lawful purpose thought of as
defenses rather than as affirmative elements). Answer the following questions based on either
presentation (both forms of analysis eventually get you to the same place):
Q #1 – What is a contract? What are the essential components of a contract? Explain each one.
Q #2 – What elements must a letter must a letter contain in order to serve as a legally enforceable
contract?
Q #3 – As a general rule, must a contract be in writing in order to be enforceable? If your answer
is no, are there exceptions to the general rule? What are they?
Q #4 – What are the sources of contract law?
Q #5 – What are the remedies for breach of contract?
Read 2109 Negotiation Presentation and answer the following questions:
Q #6 – List and describe the two styles of negotiation at opposite ends of the collaboration
spectrum.
Q #7 – What is the focus of the first stage of any successful negotiation? Why is that so?
Q #8 – Assume you are the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Vacuous Publishing Company. The
author of your best-selling non-fiction interactive CD-ROM, The One Second Manager, has a
proposal for another hot management multimedia title but wants a non-refundable $500,000
signing bonus as a key component of any contract to publish this work. You suspect, without
knowing, that the demand has more to do with the author’s ego needs than with her financial
needs. In any event, your preliminary profit and loss work ups reveal that the highest you could
go would be $250,000.
Describe your approach to this negotiation, including both A) a description of the negotiating
style you would employ and why you selected that approach, and B) your opening offer and
rationale for that offer.
Reinforcement Questions (for material covered in prior weeks):
Q #9 – Assume that you are the creative director for Big Media, Inc. Your product development
folks have come up with a plan to develop a new series of training films. You have decided to
outsource the work to a freelancer. A) What must Big Media do vis a vis the freelancer in order
to ensure that Big Media ends up with the greatest possible rights in the final work product? B)
Is the answer different if the project is assigned to an employee of Big Media? If so, how?
Q #10 – Explain, compare, and contrast fair use of trademarks as opposed to fair use of
copyrighted works.